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First Read: Supporting families with young children to learn together
In Cambodia, only 18 percent of pre-primary school aged children are enrolled and participate in Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) services while children aged 3 to 5 years old represent 33%. Less than half of all children enrolled in primary sc
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Reading England's Future: Mapping how well the poorest children read
The Read On. Get On. campaign has brought together a wide range of organisations to take action towards a historic goal for the UK: all children should be reading well by the age of 11 by 2025. Reading England’s Future charts the geography of reading disa
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Reading Takes Me to Another Place
As part of Save the Children’s Read On. Get On. Campaign, which aims to have all children in Scotland reading confidently by the age of 11, Children’s Parliament was commissioned by Save the Children to undertake direct engagement with children of primary
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Advancing the Right to Read in Rwanda: Programme baselines and studies- Summary Report
In 2013, Save the Children launched an education signature programme, Advancing the Right to Read (ARR), which is now operational in five districts in Rwanda. The programme aims to contribute to addressing the global crisis in learning by providing a cont
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All Children Reading Well at 11 by 2025: Our call to the next UK government
Education is key to unlocking a child’s potential and one of the best routes out of poverty, it is the foundation on which so much else depends: children first ‘learn to read’, then they ‘read to learn’. A commitment to getting all children reading will
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Futures Under Threat: The impact of the education crisis on Syria's children
Futures under Threat shines a light on the scale and extent of the education crisis for children inside Syria and for those living as refugees in neighbouring countries. Before the war almost all of Syria’s children were enrolled in school. Literacy rates
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Supporting Emergent Literacy and Math Skills (ELM) in Early Childhood Programs in Ethiopia
One of Save the Children’s programmatic priorities is supporting 3 to 5 year old children around the world with quality early childhood care and development (ECCD) programs. The focus is on strengthening school readiness skills so that children are ready
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Unlocking potential through education: Key achievements
Globally, great strides have been made towards achieving universal primary education since 2000. However, there are still 57 million children worldwide who are denied their right to education, half of whom live in conflict-affected or fragile states and a
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Inequality in China: A Case Study
This report examines the progress China has made in reducing absolute poverty over the past 30 years. The authors reveal that, despite success in reducing absolute poverty, inequality remains a pressing issue. Inequality is especially apparent when compar
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The right to learn: Community participation in improving learning
The past decade has witnessed unprecedented progress with millions more children in school. But there is a growing crisis in learning. Millions of children in school are unable to read, write or calculate. As The Right to Learn shows, a key factor in over
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Two Wheels are Better than One: The importance of capturing the home literacy environment in large-scale assessments of reading
This document discusses the importance of home literacy or promoting reading opportunities outside of school for children's learning. It finds that children who have access to readers and opportunities to read outside of the classroom learn more than thos
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Early Literacy Promotion in Rwanda: Opportunities and obstacles
Rwanda has achieved remarkable progress in expanding access to schooling, but there are still significant challenges to address—including the question of how to ensure that all children learn to read. A recent study found that only 32% of Primary 6 studen